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DiYi
Wears wife's pink panties under his camo for good luck. (yeah, right!)
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Icon 1 posted February 22, 2014 04:41 AM      Profile for DiYi           Edit/Delete Post 
>>
>> It's a slow day in the small town of Pumphandle and the streets are deserted.
>> Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on credit.
>>
>> A tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the motel, and
>> lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs to
>> pick one for the night. As soon as he walks upstairs, the motel owner grabs
>> the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.
>>
>> (Stay with this..... and pay attention)
>> The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to
>> the pig farmer.
>> The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill to his supplier,
>> the Co-op.
>> The guy at the Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local
>> prostitute,
>> who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her "services" on
>> credit.
>> The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel
>> Owner.
>> The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the
>> traveler will not suspect anything
>>
>> At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms are
>> not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves.
>>
>> No one produced anything. No one earned anything.
>> However, the whole town now thinks that they are out of debt and there is a
>> false atmosphere of optimism and glee.
>>
>>
>> And that, my friends, is how a "government stimulus package" works!

[ February 22, 2014, 04:42 AM: Message edited by: DiYi ]

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TundraWookie
Knows what it's all about
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Icon 1 posted February 22, 2014 09:34 AM      Profile for TundraWookie           Edit/Delete Post 
That's about it, other than the banks get a bunch of made up money and they in turn can make a profit on it. It's called the Mandrake mechanism...
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